Course Outline: Help Center
Course Outline: Help Center
Help Center
For information on how non-UAlberta students can earn course credit, please see the FAQs below on this
page.
Understanding Video Games is part of an ongoing program of research into digital learning conducted by
the University of Alberta and therefore anonymized data provided by Coursera and survey information can
be made accessible to the researchers.
Lesson 1: Introduction
In this short lesson, students will learn what to expect from the course, and will be introduced to our avatar
creation module.
Suggested Readings
Each lesson is accompanied with a required reading and a suggestion for additional readings that you may
enjoy.
Course Format
This class consists of lecture videos from 1-8 minutes in length, interspersed with integrated quiz questions
in addition to a unit test after each of the 11 lessons. Students taking the course for credit in STS 351:
Understanding Video Games at the University of Alberta will be required to take a midterm and final exam
as well.